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Traffic Camera Election Ruled Invalid: MyFoxHOUSTON.com A U.S. District Judge has ruled the election was invalid to determine if traffic light cameras should have been removed from Houston roadways. Until the decision Friday by Judge Lynn Hughes, the City of Houston and American Traffic Solutions, the company that installed the cameras, were embroiled in a lawsuit. When […]
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this […]
Tune in to an all new episode of “Cinema in Noir” tonight 6-7P.M. EST on BlogTalkRadio. Topics include: Our review of Green Lantern, a list of the most memorable dads in film, and Black superheroes that deserve their own movie franchises. “Cinema in Noir” is hosted by four film writers: Candice Frederick, Kimberly Renee, Rocky […]
The first official trailer for Halle Berry’s thriller Dark Tide was released earlier this week. Filmed on location in South Africa, Dark Tide stars Berry as a diving instructor who is drawn to close encounters with Great White sharks. Olivier Martinez (Halle’s real life squeeze) plays her husband, whose own ambition threatens their marriage, as […]
Green Lantern opens in theaters nationwide today, and while Hollywood hottie Ryan Reynolds anchors the newest DC Comics franchise as Hal Jordan, the burning question on our lips is: “Where the heck is John Stewart?” Actor Nick Jones Jr. was cast and had a cameo appearance in the film, but sadly his scenes only […]
Laurieann Gibson is on her way to becoming a household name. Although Gibson was a Fly Girl on the popular TV show In Living Color. Most of us know her as the no nonsense choreographer from Diddy’s MTV Making The Band. She has now moved on to helping Lady Gaga take over the music industry. Laurieann currently […]
Associated Press reports that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been released from Houston’s Memorial Hermann hospital after being tragically shot in the head earlier this year. Read More
Via Newsone.com: A man was arrested this morning after authorities found a suspicious looking package inside his car near the Pentagon. The man is believed to be a naturalized U.S citizen from Ethiopia. Al Qaeda-related statements, a backpack containing ammonium nitrate, and spent 9mm shells were found in the car, authorities say. Read More
The First Lady, Michelle Obama will appear as a special guest on Nickelodeon’s hit TV show, iCarly. Accordiong to E! Online Michelle Obama was on set to record on Monday. She hopes the guest spot will help put some attention on Joining Forces, a program dedicated to helping and honoring U.S. military families. On the […]
Tupac Shakur’s life was tragically ended in 1996 after being gunned down. Today he would have been 40 years old and although he is no longer living we celebrate the birthday of a wise man who was clearly ahead of his time! Twitter has been flooded with #iftupacwerealive tweets and I have a feeling that […]
LUTHER fans sure are faithful. The second season premiere debuted this past Tuesday in the U.K., watched by 5.6 million viewers on BBC Two. Seems Mr. Elba is quite pleased by the show’s ratings success as evidenced on Twitter: Season 2 picks up a year after the climactic season finale: Alice is biding her time […]
While incarcerated for 11 months in 1995, the late Tupac Shakur wrote his one and only screenplay, titled Live 2 Tell. 16 years later Preston Holmes and Ivan Juzang’s NStar Studios has purchased the rights to the screenplay.